3 Body Problem RECAP: Season 1 

Better than The Expanse?

​@@feynstein1004is Hazelnut ice cream better than Vanilla? Yes, no Art is better than the other. It is whether we enjoy It or not.

Are the books a lot like the tv show? Because Ive heard a lot about these books and how great the ideas are, but I found a lot of the ideas in the TV show to be really corny.

Vanilla is year in and year out the best selling ice cream flavor BY FAR. Just sayin. Look it up.

The TV shows changed quite a bit comparing to the book. It simplified a lot of ideas to make it more "approachable". Also the settings in the show is less grand which I assume is to save time and budget. The show do get the core ideas kinda delivered tho. Albeit the approach makes it imo less impactful and less significant but that's just my opinion. You may find the same ideas in the book's approach much more intriguing or maybe not. The characters are also very different in the books. If I keep going it will just be a another book fanboy ranting how the show is unjust for the books lol. But I will say the book is definitely not for everyone and I kinda get why there's changes made in the show. @@BunchaNothin

I can relate.

story of my life

Lmao

Yeah, that's also what I've figured. But... the other reason could also be that he's actually a bait for the Wallfacer project. Seems weird to me that there have been coincidences that somehow saved his life (skater, not aiming for head). Maybe the San'ti learned the power of deception and knew that Wallfacer project would focus on him for these exact reasons, and he may end up working in San Thi favour without even knowing about it.

It actually was due to that “Einstein joke”😂

Other scientists had been mysteriously dying from the start of the show and that fat guy was also killed in his house so saul wasn't the 1st.

@@stevelin5109 true, before Wenje died. She gave a joke of Einstein, which when you decipher. It actually is the Femi Paradox and Game theory, which will play a major for Saul in Season 2. In the books louji takes this mantle, which is why they wanted to kill him. Again in the books when the Sword bearer is transferred from louji to jin, the Santi didn't hesitate to attack earth because they knew Jin didn't have the guts to send the signal. Wade would have made a better Sword bearer than Jin in the end, now due to his moral compass out of balance he was left out but he did help Jin in some way.

​@@jjacha Its probably the Einstein joke, Saul was the last one to talk to Ye Wenji, and the only assassination that Shan Ti have ordered yet are Ye Wenji's and Saul's. Now that Wenji is dead, Saul knows something, what exactly, Shan Ti probably don't know since they don't get jokes, snd Saul is pretty much on the same track but he is human, and has a biological advantage. "You're smart" As Wenji said, he'll figure it out. I also saw a lot of people critiquing Shan Ti could kill everyone while on aircraft or traffic control, etc. The answer to that is in the books and also in the series. Some key phrases are Season 1 "You are bugs" Season 2 "Our Lord does not care"

You're correct about the blinking, it was one of the Sophons folding and unfolding. In the book, the sky doesn't blink exactly, but rather the cosmic background radiation blinks. But it's the same idea. Netflix's interpretation is more visually interesting than seeing someone look at a computer terminal.

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Saul Durand, or Luo Ji in the books, really is an intuitive character and notices things more readily than others. However (slight spoiler) Saul is targeted not because of that but because he was one of the last person Ye Wenjie talked to. (major spoiler) And that Ye Wenjie dropped a hint of the reality of Space as a Dark forest veiled as a joke in the last episode, the solution to Earths crisis with the San Ti (which is definitely going to be the plot of the second season)

isn't that what it's for?

@@sub-zero0100 I use the recaps when a new season comes out but Man of Recaps is so great I decided to watch this one right after finishing the season instead. I'll watch it again when S2 is out.

Bruh… that’s the point

same here boy

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@@Wheelbrrowye man

That sounds like Defeatism Talk. Are you compromised by the San Ti? hahahahahaha

that seems super difficult when they can only be at two places at a time including making countdowns appear for hundreds of scientists around the world

The author is from china . So most of the characters are chinese .

🙄😑

They just renewed it

You call it backwater, they call it a paradise

It's literally paradise for them

Maybe it is the perfect bio world for them. But, yeah.

Man if humanity was in their position we would be long gone.

That was the closest habitable planet to them

The alien was assigned to an outpost to listen to signals from civilizations ans happened to intercept the message from earth. He was about to report it to their seniors but then thought what they were going to do the civilization. In their race for survival, diplomacy is not they had in mind. They were going to conquer earth anyway. So he warned earth and simply scrubbed their earlier message/ didn't report it. Later on when ye wenjie invites them to conquer earth, he reports the contact to his superiors. Where they found out about the previous message and his attempt to hide it. Him, his colleagues and his family were punished for his crime.

They cannot pin point the earth's location with the first message, if she does not reply they cannot know where exactly

@@sintee2099 thankyou.

Book reader here, they have a different way of communicating but they are not telepathic. It has something to do with their different physiology which will probably be shown next season

@@arnldchan4362 thanks. i'm going to do the audiobooks first.

it was the einstein joke, the violin represented humanity advancing technology and showing it off (playing to god) and god represented other species in the universe with even more advanced technology. basically saying showing off to the universe would get us killed. as wallfacer this is a fact saul could use against the santi - and would therefore want him dead.

For what I've heard, there's not going to be a 2nd season. Production cost is astronomically high (no pun intended).

@@boterhammetpindakaashagelslagFalse, season 2 in the works now.

@@oqsy That would be great, but I can't find any real confirmation of this. It's all still speculative.

@@boterhammetpindakaashagelslagit’s a bit early for that I think we’ll get some updates in upcoming weeks

​@boterhammetpindakaashagelslag it was just renewed

What’s crazy to think about is that it takes them years to make those shows and that movie but we can finish watching it within a day 🤣

Note, that Mike Evans already started communicating with the Santi in the 80s. The Sophons were deployed nearly the same time. The Sophon can travel at the speed of light, since they are protons, without mass. They can also communicate instantly through quantum physics. Now its possible the Santi aided Mike Evans, together with guidance or help of the Sophons. As for deployment, Wenje and Tatiana were responsible for the distribution. If you notice, when they capture a hard drive in the Judgement Day boat belonging to Evens. The hard drive they retrieved contained the actual 3 body problem. The Sophon then explained to the them how the Santi were able to do it. As for the direction, I the character of will explains it. He bought the title deeds of a star in a distance galaxy and gave it Jin Cheng as gift. The star happened to be in goldi locks zone like earth, it supported life. They headed in that same direction. The cop Shi's son plays a major role in building this technology of escapsing.

I saw a comment above where someone stopped midway and decided to go watch the show. There's only so much trailers or word of mouth can do. I believe Man of Recaps is doing the Lord's work as some people need a nudge to give great stories a shot.

Game of planets

Earth is the closest habitable planet, and they didn’t thrive under the 3 suns. They’ve been around a lot longer than us so every collapse they build their knowledge bit by bit

What's MOR?

There is no God is the entire point..

So despite being disruptive to us humans, we have neither exterminated nor conquered cicadas (as in subjugated every individual and put in a zoo somewhere). They may not be on top of the food chain, but cicadas are doing pretty well it seems.

I understand that perspective, given what happened with GOT, but you are missing some terrific character development and truly moving interplay between the main characters.

Except the alien photons

But we don't know how the San-Ti looks likes. Maybe they are big enough to see us as that little too

@@joshuaopoku2543 for example we are 1.7m in height and 1,700 times bigger than ants that would mean the san ti would be 1,700 times bigger than us making them 289,000m which makes them the size of 875 Eiffel towers stacked together which would mean they are too big to even stand on the earth…. Yes maybe think before you write some dumb comment like that you r tard

The santi in the books are bugs. Like a grain of rice.

@@mwansamatimba2750 yes, but we do not know that now in the series. Infact it wasn't even in the original trilogy

@@joshuaopoku2543 it's in the spin off, though the main writer of the trilogy does approve this theory in some way.